All posts tagged schools

Chinese business schools are being hit by Beijing’s crackdown on corruption: Student numbers have fallen rapidly since the Communist Party told officials and managers of state-owned enterprises to drop out of executive M.B.A. programs. Read More »

For years, China has been the world’s biggest exporter of students, but such growth is expected to stall due to a combination of demographics, better options at home and rising concerns about safety abroad; Chinese bank executives signaled concern that bad loans could rise, as earnings continued to slow in the face of declining economic growth. Read More »

Unhappy with the rigid teaching style of traditional schools and recent student abuse scandals, some tiger moms in China are keeping their kids at home.

Reuters

According to a recent survey of 18,000 parents in mainland China who have expressed interest in homeschooling their children, some 2,000 of them have already started to give lessons at home.

Conducted by the 21st-Century Education Research Institute, a Beijing-based NGO, the survey data was collected via various online platforms, including the education channel of web portal Tencent.com and other forums dedicated to homeschooling. Read More »

Residents of quake-hit Yiliang County, in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, tried to piece their lives back together over the weekend after a series of tremors killed at least 81, left more than 800 injured and displaced more than 200,000 on Friday. The earthquakes, the largest of which was 5.7 in magnitude, caused the collapse of at least 86 school buildings, according to local media reports. The disaster prompted a visit by Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday.

More images of the aftermath and relief effort after the jump… Read More »

China’s government is led by a “progressive, selfless, and united ruling group,” according to a teaching booklet sent to all Hong Kong-government schools that’s stirring controversy in the city, and that’s led critics to brand it “brainwashing.” “The China Model,” a 34-page color booklet, pays homage to China’s one-party system and says multiparty systems, such as those in the U.S., set up a “malignant party struggle.” It was produced by the Hong Kong National Education Services Center, a government-funded organization that seeks to promote greater knowledge and exposure to mainland Chinese culture and history to Hong Kong’s youth. Read More »

“To read too many books is harmful,” Mao Zedong once said. As it turns out, the erstwhile Communist revolutionary may have had a point.

In China, 85% of university students suffer from short-sightedness, according to surveys conducted by the country’s education ministry.

At the Harbin Institute of Technology, for example, shortsightedness is so common that eyeglass cleaning cloths are hung in public spaces across campus, from the canteen to libraries, for harried students to use to wipe their lenses clean. Read More »

China Blames Equipment, Officials for Wenzhou Crash: Flawed equipment and procedures as well as corruption were the main culprits in a Chinese bullet-train collision this year, the government said, conceding that its rail-network expansion has gone too fast.

French Train China Nuclear Experts: In five years, about 100 Chinese nuclear engineers will graduate from the Franco-Chinese Institute for Nuclear Energy in southern China’s Guangdong province. Trained by top French professors, the graduates will leave the school fluent in French and with master’s degrees in nuclear engineering. Read More »

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take measures to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second major school bus accident in November and amid widespread public mockery of the country’s recent donation of school buses to Macedonia. “School buses should be safe mobile campuses for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women’s and children’s affairs, according to the state-run China Daily. “Society should bear in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social welfare and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.” Read More »

Expert Insight

China’s territorial ambitions in the East and South China seas are by now well-documented. Much less understood is one of the key factors in the country’s ability to realize those ambitions: an increasingly well-funded and capable maritime militia.

The U.S. has been urging allies to steer clear of Asia's new China-led infrastructure investment bank. Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank, calls that approach mistaken on multiple levels.

Can legal reform and Communist Party control coexist in a way that will benefit Chinese governance and society?This is the question that confronts the country in the wake of its annual legislative gathering.

China's just-concluded legislative sessions seem to be another example of the deinstitutionalization of politics under Xi Jinping. Months from now, these meetings won’t be seen as harbingers of reform, so much as another lost opportunity, writes CRT analyst Russell Moses.

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